As expected, the Judge in the George Zimmerman case ruled that in addition to Second Degree Murder, she will instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of Manslaughter, as required by Florida case law.

In a surprise move this morning, the prosecution asked the Judge to drop the Aggravated Assault charge and to instruct the jury on Third Degree Murder, which is murder in the course of committing a felony.

The felony the State wanted as the predicate was Aggravated Child Abuse (Jury Instruction) because Trayvon Martin was 17 at the time of the shooting.

According to Don West, the defense was not notified until 7:30 a.m. this morning.

This surprise is important because the defense did not have time to research the law, while the State presented numerous cases. Generally it is not a defense to child abuse that the perpetrator did not know the age of the victim. This is an unusual circumstance, however, where Zimmerman was punched in the nose and the child was on top punching him  to say that excessive use of force in defense of an attack by a child is child abuse certainly requires some time to research and argue. I dont know the answer to that legal question, but the court should give the defense time to research and argue it. (Update 11:35 a.m.  Judge just indicated she will give defense time to research, but didnt indicate how long until 1 p.m.)

Ok, so in Florida, it’s legal to change the indictment brought against you by the state when the state begins to realize that they are not going to be able to prove the original charge? So, Ok, let’s charge him with 3rd degree murder, Oh, no, how about Manslaughter?

Wouldn’t new charges demand a new trial? I pray to God that the jury just out and out acquits Zimmerman. This is unbelievable.

Tried to tell all those “He’s going to walk” folks. The state of Florida’s power structure has decreed that this man goes to prison no matter what. The old police chief testified that the department’s investigation was hijacked by politicians, and that they were ordered to arrest him even though no cause existed to do so. George Zimmerman is to be sacrificed to the gods of racial correctness. I fully expect he’ll be murdered shortly after being sent to prison.

This is un-freakin’-believable!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot believe what I am reading here, I cannot believe it. This should make EVERYBODY take to the streets and riot, because if the fascists can do this, they can charge ANYBODY with ANYTHING.

In the course of committing a felony?? Did I miss something here? Did Zimmerman feel Trayvon up before he shot him? Did he take nude photos of him?

I pray the jury is not falling for this tripe, but I wouldn’t doubt it being that is probably fixed as well.

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posted on 07/11/2013 9:21:44 AM PDT
by GrandJediMasterYoda
(Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")

If this is the case, and there are not riots in the streets by Zimmerman supporters, then we deserve what is to come. And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more  we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward. ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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posted on 07/11/2013 9:22:54 AM PDT
by Chickensoup
(200 million unarmed " people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)

The fix is in, Zimmerman will never be a free man again. Holder, obama, sharpton, and all of the race baiting pimps, and their political whores and judicial lackeys, will make sure that they either get riots, or a dead Zimmerman, with riots. The rule of law is dead in America. Welcome to the new lawless land.

The seeds for 'revolt' were planted the moment the Obama regime sought to railroad Zimmerman in order to orchestrate chaos. Those seeds have germinated and Obama is simply waiting for his efforts to incite a race war to ignite.

Then he will have the excuse he wants.

If you were referring to the rest of America revolting against this blatant race-war pimping, that's not gonna happen. Bloodshed is going to trump common sense - just you watch.

You have a six-foot tall person straddling you, you're on your back getting your head pounded into the sidewalk, your nose is severely broken and you're choking on your own blood in a sensation not unlike waterboarding. The perp isn't letting up and you have a very real fear that you are going to die if you don't do something drastic, so you shoot him.

You aren't going to question how old the SOB is, You're effing dying here!

BTW, imho he didn't abuse the perp, he just shot him, once.

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posted on 07/11/2013 9:30:44 AM PDT
by Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)

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